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SALSA® MSP edition
Application aware managed services
The Autonomic Networking System™
(ANS™) is at the heart of Ipanema’s
ability to connect application
performance to the enterprise’s
business goals. Self-learning, selfadapting and self-healing, ANS offers
tightly coupled features that together
bring a unique level of intelligence to
the enterprise network, including:
Ipanema’s ANS uses both software and hardware components that collaborate in real
time. The central management software component is called the Scalable ApplicationLevel Service Architecture (SALSA®).
Monitoring &
Alarming
Datacenter
WAN Optimization, accelerating
application response time, optimizing
chatty protocols and providing
additional virtual bandwidth by
substantially reducing the volume of
data transmitted across the network;
Dynamic WAN Selection, selecting
the best route for application flows in
multi-networked branch offices
according to the application
performance objectives of each user
flow and the real-time performance
characteristics of each available path.
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Public
virtual|engine
ip|engine
SALSA
MPLS
Reporting
Internet
mobile agent
tele|engine
Main site
QoS & Control, dynamically adjusting
traffic control and network resources
according to users’ activity and
application performance objectives,
enforcing critical application SLAs in
the most complex and challenging
traffic situations, while guaranteeing
the best possible usage of the
infrastructure;
IaaS/PaaS
SAP
Synchronized
Global Table
Application Visibility, providing full
understanding of application usage and
performance over the global network from the smallest detail up to high-level
KPIs to manage application SLAs and
capacity planning;
SaaS
Branch
Branch
Home
SALSA-MSP has been specially developed by Ipanema to provide Telecom Providers
and Managed Service Providers with the capability to deliver application-aware
services to their customers, including application SLAs enforcement and reporting, that
are fast to deploy and easy to operate.
SALSA-MSP automatically manages all ANS components in a full multi-tenant
environment, providing a central and unified management interface to obtain the full
visibility and control of application performance over the global enterprise network.
SALSA-MSP edition provides:
Provisioning of global application performance objectives
Activation of ANS features across global enterprise networks
Management of ANS components (inventory, software upgrades, etc.)
Real-time view of traffic for trouble-shooting applications and networks
Flexible reporting of application usage and performance
High level KPIs (AQS, MOS) that support application SLAs
Event generation and interfaces to OSS/BSS systems
Optional integration capabilities with the MSP’s IT environment
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Quality Score are registered trademarks and Autonomic Networking System and
ANS are trademarks of Ipanema Technologies. All other names may be trademarks
or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
SALSA MSP consists of three primary
software modules:
ip|boss is used to configure and
supervise ANS components. It also
collects application visibility data
from the ANS agents and provides
real-time helpdesk, application
performance monitoring and
alarming functions.
ip|reporter provides an information
base and an advanced reporting
engine. It is capable of delivering
numerous reports on application
usage and performance according
to multiple criteria, such as by
application type, network site or
region and/or time. Reports are
automatically deployed through
wizards.
ip|uniboss provides an unified layer
of management at the multi-tenant
platform level.
An optional module, ip|export, provides
performance and usage measurement
data to various third-party systems like
OSS/BSS infrastructure and familiar
analysis software suites such as
Microsoft Excel.
SALSA MSP’s multi-tenant architecture
allows deploying application-aware
managed services for a large customer
base (SMEs as well as large
enterprises) on a single infrastructure.
Scalability is ensured at all levels
(servers, portals, storage, etc.).
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ANS guarantees application performance using objectives that are globally defined in
SALSA and communicated to all ANS agents. These agents form a distributed and
autonomic system that constantly evolves to enforce and even exceed the application
performance objectives.
SALSA periodically collects usage and performance information from ANS agents. This
information is consolidated into a synchronous multi-dimensional table that contains
details such as application identity, volume, source, destination and quality.
The information is delivered to real-time monitoring, network troubleshooting and
alarming tools. Historical views of applications, sites, etc. can be produced for any time
period – from minutes to years. Custom reports can focus on specific areas of the
network, from a global network view down to any application on a specific site,
providing a flexible and complete visibility on applications behavior over the entire
network.
SALSA-MSP operates through a simple Web interface. An iPhone application is
available for anywhere anytime access to customers’ business application
performance.
SALSA-MSP edition
Operating systems
Windows 2008 or Solaris 10 (Linux by end 2011)
Virtualization
VMware support
Number of enterprises
Up to 10,000 enterprises
Number of domains
Up to 10,000 domains
Number of managed sites
Up to 400,000 sites
Real-time granularity
10 seconds
Historical reporting polling period
1, 5 or 15 minutes
Number of simultaneous reports
Up to 4,000,000 reports
Type of reports
Performance, availability, capacity planning, SLAs, …
Technical metrics
Volume, delay, loss, jitter, response time, accel. factor, etc.
Composite KPIs for SLAs
AQS (Application Quality Score) and MOS
Reports consolidation criteria
Any combinations of applications, criticality, sites, etc.
Reports time span (default)
Hour, Day, Week, Month, Year
Events generation (traps, emails)
Flexible combinations of thresholds on any KPIs (AQS,
MOS) and any technical metrics – Faults, …
Portal
HTTP, HTTPS
IT Integration
Standalone or integration with SSO, LDAP, RADIUS…
Northbound interface
CLI, GWT, REST
High availability
Support HA solutions: VMotion, MSCS, SunCluster, etc.